Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Willie Baronet, a Dallas artist and Stan Richards Professor of Creative Advertising at SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, has been buying and collecting signs made by homeless people for more than 20 years.

From Yahoo News: "It's an art installation sure to evoke a spectrum of emotions: from sorrow and surprise to humor and hope. Whatever the feeling, Willie Baronet wants his exhibit at New York University to bring "the issue of homelessness to light in a unique manner to hopefully change people’s hearts and minds on how they view the homeless." Baronet, a Texas artist and advertising professor, drove across the U.S. last July purchasing signs from panhandlers in 24 cities. His "We Are All Homeless" exhibit features 260 signs he acquired as he met with homeless people from Seattle to New York City.
The NYU exhibit – his first from the coast-to-coast project – is hosted by HELP USA and will be on display through Jan. 24 in the Kimmel Center for University Life Stovall Family Gallery.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

For the past year and a half, Danielle Voirin has been pasting up her photos in the streets of Paris, and often re-photographing them as they deteriorate. In Le Brykln show, she has included some of those posters (which will be pasted in the street at the end of the show) as well as prints of those posters after other people and the weather has altered them. Along with that is a selection of her recent cyanotypes, an extension of the same series.

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

A woman held up a placard that translates to "I am Charlie" as she and others gathered at the Place de la Republique in Paris. Credit Joel Saget/Agence France-Presse / Getty Images. Image Courtesy: The New York Times. #JeSuisCharlieCharlie Hebdo : Download Je Suis Charlie. Please share. Please be kind to each other.

"Why create lingerie?" recalls Zion. "Well, I can remember a time when I was working as a beauty consultant in the States. Every morning I helped my clients look fabulous that day; we were close and shared birthdays. So I wanted to not just give them a gift, but make them one. And so I designed and created these lace lingerie boy shorts!"

The designer then asked his women friends and other male friends what they thought about unisex lingerie – and taking it to the world. The response was strong enough for Zion to launch a site and a business. While still developing the business and expanding the lines for both men and women and the all purpose unisex modesl, Zion is out to change the way people dress and underdress, even if you can't see it : Zion's FaceBook Page.